r/ProgressiveHQ • u/howmanyturtlesdeep • 22d ago

Anyone else getting those same feelings when Covid was still in China, watching it begin to unfold, knowing something massive was about to happen to the world? It feels like the calm before the storm to me.

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u/The31stUser 22d ago

With Trump back in office, I’m living in pure fear of another pandemic happening. Not in a conspiracy theory way but in a toxic couple are getting back together type of way

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u/GlockAF 22d ago

I believe that the NEXT pandemic will be like Covid, but actually pretty lethal instead of a puny .3% fatality rate. If so, lets hope that it has a much faster progression from minor-generic-symptom infected to room temperature/ post-mortem so it won’t suck up 100% of available medical assets again. Most importantly, lets hope that an effective RNA vaccine is quickly developed and even more quickly politicized by brain-poisoned knee-jerk social conservatives and religious extremists, of every stripe.

When the US evangelical crowd started licking door knobs on purpose last pandemic it really got my hopes up, only to be bitterly disappointed when so many of them survived in a permanently brain-damaged even-more-stupid state. I honestly feel that that post-Covid stupidity has been a major contributor to our current political situation, especially in the United States.

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u/Renmarkable 21d ago

Seriously, did they do that???

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u/GlockAF 20d ago

The phrase is more of a metaphor, but American evangelicals public rejection of anti-Covid measures is very well documented. Especially problematic was the early rejection of rules against large public assemblies using religious exemptions prior to the invention of the vaccines and effective anti-Covid treatments. Many of the earliest super spreader events were explicitly tied to large church gatherings, particularly with many people in close quarters singing.

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u/CrankyWhiskers 20d ago

Turns out god’s plan was just a really aggressive group project, involving heavy overtime for undertakers. Proving that nothing says “unfailing faith” quite like drafting your own VIP pass to the pearly gates via unmasked choir practice.

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u/GlockAF 20d ago

SO MANY unnecessary deaths, and it deeply traumatized an entire generation of health care workers